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- The World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc. is the nation's leading organization in conducting international technology assessments via expert review.
- WTEC division has conducted over 60 such studies since 1989.
- Panelists are some of the nation's leading experts. Past panelists include the Director of the NSF, Directors of the DOE Office of Science (2), the Chief of Naval Research, vice presidents of research for IBM, Bell Labs, and hundreds of other leading scientists.
- Sponsors include most of the Federal research agencies: NSF, ONR, DARPA, EPA, NIH, AHRQ, NASA, NIST, FDA, AFOSR, ARO, et al.
- Studies cover a wide range of technologies. Examples include information technologies, healthcare technologies, manufacturing, and nanotechnologies.
- Recently completed reports include brain-computer interfaces, catalysis, vaccine manufacturing, robotics, operations research for healthcare delivery systems, high-end computing in Japan, tissue engineering (published by Academic Press), spin electronics and molecular modeling (both published by Kluwer), biosensing, micromanufacturing, and systems biology (all published by Springer).
- WTEC also organizes workshops for Federal clients. Recent ones include metabolic engineering, stem cells applied to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, systems biology, and molecular electronics.
- WTEC supports Federal agencies with onsite contractor personnel.
- Workshop proceedings and the full text of all final reports are posted at http://www.wtec.org/.
- WTEC was formerly a division of Loyola College in Maryland and is now a separate nonprofit research corporation -- an IRS 501 (c) (3) organization.
- WTEC has conducted international technology assessments under a series of umbrella grants from NSF that have passed peer review.
- WTEC is also on the GSA MOBIS schedule.
- Total contracting burden based on gross salaries is 70% compared to the usual 100% or more.
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Material contained in this website is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. ENG-0739505 and other NSF awards. Other federal agencies contributing to WTEC reports include the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration.